Dirceu Lopes, full name Dirceu Lopes Mendes (born 3 September 1946), is a retired Brazilian footballer. He was an

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who played mainly with Cruzeiro. He had seven caps with the Brazil national team, scoring one goal. He was born in

Pedro Leopoldo Pedro Leopoldo is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Minas Gerais. The city is located in the Greater Belo Horizonte region. According to the most recent census of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, the population of th ...

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1946 births Living people Brazilian men's footballers Brazil men's international footballers 1975 Copa América players Cruzeiro Esporte Clube players Fluminense FC players People from Pedro Leopoldo Men's association football midfielders Men's association football forwards Footballers from Minas Gerais 20th-century Brazilian sportsmen {{brazil-footy-forward-1940s-stub